This is a half-day morning workshop with five 25-minute talks, each with five minutes for Q&A. The workshop will conclude with a panel discussion made of relevant experts in the field.
The focus of this workshop is on improving the functionality, adoptability, and societal impact of human augmentation devices through the exploration of several technical and scientific topics thought to significantly impact the design and efficacy such devices, including:
The breadth of these topics speaks to the large technical and scientific scope of the challenges in human augmentation, and highlight the need for more concerted efforts in addressing these highly interdisciplinary areas. The goal of this workshop is to have leading experts in human augmentation discuss the most confounding and salient questions they face in this domain.